Tech Data reported disappointing earnings numbers during its fourth-quarter earnings call this morning, missing on revenue by $330 million. Despite this, Tech Data CEO Bob Dutkowsky insists the company is in a good position for growth going forward.

CRN's first-ever Channel Madness Tournament Of Chiefs kicks off Thursday, with Round 1 pitting a handful of channel stalwarts against the top channel execs at some of the industry's hottest young companies.

IT Best of Breed talks to Gal Ofel, head of software solution product line management at Telco Systems, about his company's new Open Edge Alliance ecosystem for software-defined networking and network functions virtualization.Via itbestofbreed.com

The days of the vintage VAR are over, and a new era of services is bringing with it a wave of industry consolidation, solution providers said. That was especially apparent Monday, solution providers said, as the news of the acquisition of En Pointe Technologies and sale of CompuCom's software business emerged.

While a large group of EMC's investors continue to hope that EMC will sell parts of itself to create more clear valuation for them, EMC is likely heading in the opposite direction by considering more acquisitions, according to a top analyst.